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hep-th2020★ 48 cited

Anomalous Symmetries End at the Boundary

Ryan Thorngren, Yifan Wang

A global symmetry of a quantum field theory is said to have an 't Hooft anomaly if it cannot be promoted to a local symmetry of a gauged theory. In this paper, we show that the ano…

hep-th2020

A Letter Highlighting Matrix Mapping in Minimal 4D, = 1 On-Shell Supermultiplet Representations

Delilah E. A. Gates, S. James Gates

On the basis of comparing eigenvalues of an operator , that proved useful in distinguishing how off-shell 4D, = 1 supermultiplets…

hep-th2020★ 85 cited

Chern-Weil Global Symmetries and How Quantum Gravity Avoids Them

Ben Heidenreich, Jacob McNamara, Miguel Montero +3

We draw attention to a class of generalized global symmetries, which we call "Chern-Weil global symmetries," that arise ubiquitously in gauge theories. The Noether currents of thes…

hep-th2020★ 3 cited

Nonabelian mirrors and Gromov-Witten invariants

Wei Gu, Jirui Guo, Yaoxiong Wen

We propose Picard-Fuchs equations for periods of nonabelian mirrors in this paper. The number of parameters in our Picard-Fuchs equations is the rank of the gauge group of the nona…

hep-th2020★ 111 cited

Celestial Amplitudes from UV to IR

Nima Arkani-Hamed, Monica Pate, Ana-Maria Raclariu +1

Celestial amplitudes represent 4D scattering of particles in boost, rather than the usual energy-momentum, eigenstates and hence are sensitive to both UV and IR physics. We show th…

hep-th2020★ 18 cited

An obstacle to sub-AdS holography for SYK-like models

Pengfei Zhang, Yingfei Gu, Alexei Kitaev

We argue that "stringy" effects in a putative gravity-dual picture for SYK-like models are related to the branching time, a kinetic coefficient defined in terms of the retarded ker…

hep-th2020★ 96 cited

A worldsheet for Kerr

Alfredo Guevara, Ben Maybee, Alexander Ochirov +2

We show that the Newman-Janis shift property of the exact Kerr solution can be interpreted in terms of a worldsheet effective action. This holds both in gravity, and for the single…

hep-th2020★ 43 cited

Lorentzian Dynamics and Factorization Beyond Rationality

Chi-Ming Chang, Ying-Hsuan Lin

We investigate the emergence of topological defect lines in the conformal Regge limit of two-dimensional conformal field theory. We explain how a local operator can be factorized i…

hep-th2020★ 53 cited

Floquet conformal field theories with generally deformed Hamiltonians

Ruihua Fan, Yingfei Gu, Ashvin Vishwanath +1

In this work, we study non-equilibrium dynamics in Floquet conformal field theories (CFTs) in 1+1D, in which the driving Hamiltonian involves the energy-momentum density spatially…

hep-th2020★ 1 cited

A plethora of K3 metrics

Arnav Tripathy, Max Zimet

We extend our recent study of K3 metrics near the orbifold locus to the other torus orbifold loci. In particular, we provide several new constructions of K3 surfaces as h…

hep-th2020★ 64 cited

Gravitational Constrained Instantons

Jordan Cotler, Kristan Jensen

We find constrained instantons in Einstein gravity with and without a cosmological constant. These configurations are not saddle points of the Einstein-Hilbert action, yet they con…

hep-th2020★ 7 cited

On Exotic Consistent Anomalies in (1+1): A Ghost Story

Chi-Ming Chang, Ying-Hsuan Lin

We revisit 't Hooft anomalies in (1+1) non-spin quantum field theory, starting from the consistency and locality conditions, and find that consistent U(1) and gravitational anom…

hep-th2020★ 9 cited

Anomaly and Cobordism Constraints Beyond Grand Unification: Energy Hierarchy

Juven Wang

A recent work [2006.16996] suggests that a 4d nonperturbative global anomaly of mod 16 class hinting a possible new hidden gapped topological sector beyond the Standard Model (SM)…

hep-th2020★ 10 cited

Planar Matrices and Arrays of Feynman Diagrams: Poles for Higher

Alfredo Guevara, Yong Zhang

Planar arrays of tree diagrams were introduced as a generalization of Feynman diagrams that enables the computation biadjoint amplitudes for . In this follow-up w…

hep-th2020

How , SYM domain walls look like

Igor Bandos, Stefano Lanza, Dmitri Sorokin

We review main features of the pure , SYM and its effective description by the Veneziano-Yankielowicz generalized sigma-model. We then indicate that the constru…

hep-th2020

Killing Spinor in Linearly Confining Supergravity

Girma Hailu

The killing spinor of a linearly confining supergravity background previously proposed and argued to produce features of pure N=1 SU(N) gauge theory in four dimensions is construct…

hep-th2020★ 2 cited

From -adic to Archimedean Physics: Renormalization Group Flow and Berkovich Spaces

An Huang, Dan Mao, Bogdan Stoica

We introduce the -adic particle-in-a-box as a free particle with periodic boundary conditions in the -adic spatial domain. We compute its energy spectrum, and show that the s…